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...Ismet Pasha, Turkish Foreign Minister, swearing by all his gods that Turkish troops had not crossed the boundary (i.e.. the boundary as set by Turkey), warned the League, last week, that if British troops committed acts of aggression on the frontier, Britain must shoulder the entire responisiblity...
...What terrible weather you English have," said Egyptian Premier Zaghlul Pasha to Premier MacDonald...
...Mohammed VI, who was temporal and spiritual head of Mohammedanism, said he was Calif; but that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that his deposition as Calif was illegal and sacrilegious. Then from the heart of Islam, Husein Ibn Ali, a descendent of the Prophet, declared himself Calif...
Unless the aged Zaghlul Pasha succeeds in arranging a "favorable settlement" with Britain, his political future is precarious...
Lord Allenby. British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. "At present Lord Allenby, a man to whom the Egyptians are indebted for their independence in 1922, is conferring amicably with the Premier, Zaghlul Pasha; and I have no doubt that some agreement will be reached that will settle the questions in dispute between England and Egypt. . . . Despite all that has happened between Lord Allenby and the Premier, they are good friends, and entertain at each other's homes, and appear together frequently in public. Lord Allenby is 64 years old and a splendid man in every way. Both sides...